Thus far, in common with his order, and in this sense, Julius Cæsar was naturally a despiser of superstition.
We find, accordingly, that though sincerely a despiser of superstition, and with a frankness which must sometimes have been hazardous in that age, Cæsar was himself also superstitious.
Or a despiser of suffering for I seek to do thee naught harmful, and thou thyself pursuest what is harmful to thee, as thou to say, 'I am indifferent to pain.
To be exposed in the midst of his misery to the scorn of a despiser of his art was too much for his exhausted patience.
When thus Nestor says {to them}: “Cygnus has been the only despiser of weapons in your time, and penetrable by no blows.
It was the enemy of happiness, the hater of joy, and the despiser of religious liberty.
He will not be a man, human and humane, but an overman (Uebermensch), a superhuman despiser of humanity and humaneness.
Nietzsche, the atheist, deemed himself a God incarnate, and the despiser of the Crucified, suffered a martyr's fate in offering his own life to the cause of his hope.
In great affairs he knew how to spare himself the details to which others could attend as well as he, and yet he was in no wise a despiser of small things.
In his later years at Cività Vecchia he yearned for companionship like a girl, and, a despiser of Paris and the Parisians, he suffered from the nostalgia of the boulevard.
It is even part of my ambition to be considered as essentially a despiser of Germans.
A thorough searcher of the various Scriptures, a hammer to and a despiser of the Romans.
He died in peace, and the public voice proclaimed him "a searcher of the Scriptures, an adversary of the pope, and despiser of the Romans.
The latter as a Christian, became a zealous despiser of Judaism; the former, as a Jew, an equally fanatical opponent of Christianity.
We see clearly his attachment to Judaism in the case of his pardonable hatred of the oppressor and despiser of his race, of the enemy who had received salvation from Judaism, which he imprisoned and spat upon.
John O'Donovan in his unpublished letters says that he is represented in ancient Irish literature as "A very holy man, a despiser of the world, and an inexorable chastiser of the flesh.
Dr Petrie's great work, "The Antiquities of Tara Hill," would go far to remove the prejudices of the most bigoted despiser of Irish historic records.
But he who is a despiser of glory, but is greedy of domination, exceeds the beasts in the vices of cruelty and luxuriousness.
The Democratic party has been, during all these years, the enemy of civilization, the hater of liberty, the despiser of justice.
Personally he was a true wise man, sober, scrupulous, a despiser of pleasure, severe to himself, in practice a Stoic.
Furthermore, to call Ibsen "the inventor of the equality madness" is absolutely a misstatement of a fact, as Ibsen has been a despiser of democracy and all forms of equality.
There was death in the eyes of those who were rushing toward him shouting 'Down with the despiser of the gods!
This Ameres, whom the people regard as so holy, is at heart a despiser of the gods.
He was too proud to sue for popularity, and too great a despiser of men to attach any importance to their judgment.
A despiser of men, with his wits sharpened by his own experiences, he never allowed himself to be fooled by servile cringing and flattery.
To judge from his conduct in the matter of Otto Cantone's estate, Fazio seems to have been as great a despiser of wealth as his son proved to be afterwards.
But I do say, that no man can well be a despiser of Bishop Allen, for his public labors among us, unless he is a despiser of God and Righteousness.
But he is also an unruly individualist, a reckless despiser of accepted morality; and it is hard to see how his relation with Gretchen, which forms by far the largest part of the Ur-Faust, can lead to anything but a tragic catastrophe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "despiser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
